The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of surplus school places through an annual survey. The most recent data available relate to the position at January 2008.
The following table shows the number of schools in each local education authority which have a percentage of surplus places of 25 or above.
LA Number of primary schools with 25 per cent. or more surplus Number of secondary schools with 25 per cent. or more surplus Total Blackpool 0 0 0 City of London 0 0 0 Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 Westminster 0 0 0 Camden 1 0 1 Darlington 1 0 1 Sutton 1 0 1 Ealing 2 0 2 Haringey 2 0 2 Lambeth 2 0 2 Luton 2 0 2 Richmond upon Thames 1 1 2 Slough 2 0 2 Southend-on-Sea 1 1 2 Brent 2 1 3 Islington 3 0 3 Kensington and Chelsea 3 0 3 Kingston upon Thames 2 1 3 St. Helens 2 1 3 Waltham Forest 2 1 3 Barking and Dagenham 4 0 4 Dudley 2 2 4 Enfield 3 1 4 Hartlepool 3 1 4 Redbridge 3 1 4 Torbay 3 1 4 Barnsley 5 0 5 Blackburn with Darwen 4 1 5 Bracknell Forest 4 1 5 Hammersmith and Fulham 3 2 5 Hounslow 5 0 5 Merton 5 0 5 Poole 4 1 5 Telford and Wrekin 5 0 5 Wandsworth 3 2 5 Bexley 4 2 6 Bournemouth 5 1 6 Tameside 5 1 6 Tower Hamlets 6 0 6 Wokingham 5 1 6 Hackney 5 2 7 Harrow 7 0 7 Kingston upon Hull; City of 5 2 7 North Somerset 7 0 7 Thurrock 7 0 7 West Berkshire 7 0 7 Windsor and Maidenhead 6 1 7 York 6 1 7 Barnet 6 2 8 Brighton and Hove 7 1 8 Bury 6 2 8 Coventry 6 2 8 Croydon 5 3 8 Newham 7 1 8 Oldham 7 1 8 Peterborough 6 2 8 Reading 6 2 8 Rochdale 6 2 8 Rutland 8 0 8 Swindon 8 0 8 Wigan 6 2 8 Bolton 5 4 9 Havering 8 1 9 Leicester 7 2 9 Redcar and Cleveland 7 2 9 Halton 8 2 10 Rotherham 10 0 10 Stockton-on-Tees 7 3 10 Walsall 9 1 10 Greenwich 10 1 11 Lewisham 10 1 11 Trafford 9 2 11 North Lincolnshire 10 2 12 Solihull 12 0 12 Stockport 12 0 12 Stoke-on-Trent 9 3 12 Bradford 11 2 13 Calderdale 12 1 13 Gateshead 11 2 13 Hillingdon 8 5 13 North East Lincolnshire 9 4 13 Southwark 12 1 13 Bath and North East Somerset 12 2 14 Derby 13 1 14 South Tyneside 13 1 14 Medway 14 1 15 Middlesbrough 14 1 15 Newcastle upon Tyne 15 0 15 Portsmouth 13 2 15 Warrington 14 1 15 Plymouth 15 1 16 Sandwell 15 1 16 Bristol; City of 12 6 18 Bromley 18 0 18 Manchester 16 3 19 Sefton 14 5 19 Sheffield 18 1 19 Herefordshire 19 1 20 South Gloucestershire 17 3 20 Southampton 13 7 20 Sunderland 16 4 20 Salford 19 2 21 Leeds 20 2 22 North Tyneside 20 2 22 Wolverhampton 20 3 23 Doncaster 22 2 24 East Sussex 22 2 24 Milton Keynes 21 3 24 Knowsley 22 4 26 East Riding of Yorkshire 27 0 27 Isle of Wight 22 5 27 Oxfordshire 25 3 28 Wirral 25 4 29 Kirklees 24 6 30 Worcestershire 26 4 30 Warwickshire 26 5 31 Liverpool 28 4 32 Nottingham 27 7 34 Wakefield 33 1 34 Cambridgeshire 33 3 36 Shropshire 35 1 36 Bedfordshire 29 8 37 Surrey 31 6 37 Devon 36 2 38 West Sussex 33 5 38 Buckinghamshire 37 2 39 Dorset 36 4 40 Somerset 38 2 40 Birmingham 38 3 41 Cornwall 45 2 47 Leicestershire 42 5 47 Lincolnshire 46 3 49 Northamptonshire 48 1 49 Cumbria 43 9 52 Wiltshire 47 5 52 Gloucestershire 49 6 55 Cheshire 52 6 58 Kent 50 9 59 Durham 55 7 62 Staffordshire 55 7 62 Nottinghamshire 60 6 66 Northumberland 57 14 71 Derbyshire 70 4 74 Hampshire 64 12 76 Hertfordshire 67 13 80 Suffolk 74 12 86 Norfolk 83 4 87 Essex 83 11 94 North Yorkshire 110 8 118 Lancashire 123 12 135
(2) which local authorities received targeted capital funds for surplus place removal since June 2008; how much each such local authority received for that purpose; and if he will make a statement.
Seven authorities applied and all received an award.
The amount awarded under the targeted capital funds for surplus place removal to authorities is set out in the following table.
Local authority Allocation (£) Derbyshire 475,000 Hampshire 898,000 Knowsley 3,825,000 Suffolk 2,165,000 Bristol 2,100,350 Shropshire 562,320 Lancashire 600,000 Total 10,625,670